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Description: | Table time-piece. 8-day timepiece; fusee with chain transmission + maintaining power. Dead-beat escapement with 60t wheel and half-seconds pendulum consisting of steel rod & frame enclosing navette-section tin bob. Mahogany case, flat top with simple mouldings - restored and possibly altered by P.G.Dawson. Engraved brass dial plate of "round-Gothic" form, with 45mm dia white enamel rise-and-fall regulation dial in arch. 140mm dia white enamel dial, of 'regulator' pattern, minutes at periphery, seconds below 60 (indicating true half-seconds), hours above 30.
AQN: Foulkes, R K (owner) | Publisher: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/page/7d7ded6fb50d6031e2884961a200be58.html | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Creator: | Mathew, D D | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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